Sitko will elevate within the 76-kilogram class on the 2024 IPF Basic World Championships.
Final up to date on April twenty fourth, 2024
In the event you haven’t heard of Agata Sitko, you haven’t been paying consideration. The Junior Polish powerlifter has collected scalps on the lifting platform for the final three years. She is the top-ranked powerlifter within the Worldwide Powerlifting Federation (IPF) in uncooked and geared up disciplines.
Sitko received The 2024 Sheffield Powerlifting Championships with an unimaginable 9 for 9 efficiency, hitting an enormous private greatest on complete, regardless of having minimize into the burden class under. That day’s work netted Sitko £40,000 (~$50,000) and catapulted her to the highest of the IPF uncooked rankings with a GL level rating of 124.40.
Sitko is making ready for the 2024 IPF Basic World Championships in Druskininkai, Lithuania, and she is going to seemingly are available in scorching. Try her newest coaching replace on her Instagram web page, whereby she scores some large numbers on an SBD day, together with a complete of two kilograms over the present IPF uncooked world report of 610.5 kilograms:
Sitko begins the session with a small private greatest on squat. Her largest uncooked squat in competitors is the 202.5 kilograms she did on the 2022 European Powerlifting Federation (EPF) European traditional. Nonetheless, she lastly pushed that to 205 kilograms in coaching.
“It took me virtually two years to hit a 2.5-kilogram squat PR, and I’m so glad about it.”
The squat appeared on the prime finish of power, however her positioning was sturdy, and a triumphant smile unfold throughout her face midway up, displaying that she knew she’d nailed it.
The bench press proven within the video is “contact and go” (i.e., not paused on the chest). At 160 kilograms, it’s 5.5 kilograms over Sitko’s bench press world report within the 76KG class. She has the excellence of holding the IPF bench press world data in three weight courses now — 69KG, 76KG, and 84KG, an unparalleled achievement.
Sitko notes in her caption that she did a paused 157.5-kilogram bench press instantly earlier than the highest single.
Deadlifts accomplished the session, and Sitko locked out 247.5 kilograms in what she describes as a “grind PR.”
“Deadlifts didn’t transfer right now, however not less than I hit the longest grind of my life”
With the squat, bench, and deadlift taken collectively, that provides Sitko a coaching complete of 612.5 kilograms — two kilograms over the overall world report within the 76KG class at the moment held by New Zealand’s Karlina Tongotea.
Though Sitko competed within the 69KG class at Sheffield, she returned to 76KG for the 2024 IPF Basic World Championships and can face Tongotea for the second straight 12 months.
Sitko was the silver medalist on the two most up-to-date Basic World Championships, shedding on body weight in 2022 and by solely 2.5 kilograms in 2023. This contest stays one of many few that Sitko hasn’t but received. She carries appreciable momentum into the 2024 version and might be exhausting to beat.
Sitko lifts within the prime-time session on the 2024 IPF Basic World Championships on June 21, 2024. This session guarantees to be a fierce battle and is likely one of the most highly-anticipated showdowns of the whole competitors. The occasion might be live-streamed without cost on the Olympic and Olympics YouTube channels.
Featured picture: @ja.gata_sitko on Instagram